Atarashii Prelude

The iDOLM@STER 07: Pure-Poor-Girl

According to Makoto and Miki, cucumbers make good doubled-ended dildos

For me, the appeal of a poor girl is her hard-working attitude - To be more precise, it is the 'getting by' that makes them attractive, more so than the poverty aspect. For a person like yours truly who slogs from 9 to 5 trying to make ends meet while attempting to better themselves through shameless self-promotion, it becomes slightly more apparent what the attraction to this archetype is.

For the most part, the appeal of poor girls stems from the fact that they tend to work a lot harder than their peers, while expecting very little in return. In Yayoi's case, she is a hard-working applicant who looks forward to only a modest day's wage; Rather than expecting larger-than-life returns, she just wants to do the best she can, mostly for the sake of her family. This would come off as rather odd, seeing as how it contradicts the ultimate goal of fame and fortune sought after by other idols. And regardless of adversity, she will always put on a brave front and big smile. In short, it is Yayoi's selflessness and tenacity that has really inspired and won me over - the very same reasons that make Yayoi the waifu candidate to end all waifu candidates If anything, this Chicken Rice song sums Yayoi up perfectly.

You know, I was initially kind of worried about the quality of this episode, in that it might plummet after they spent two standard anime episode's budget on the PV alone, but thankfully this turned out to be one of the better episodes so far, and not solely because it is a Yayoi-centric one. If anything Iori seems to have taken half the episode for herself, but that was alright too, since she is one of my personal favourites as well. Hopefully this episode has also quelled any accusations that Iori is just another run-of-the-mill Tsunderie character. Sure, she pretty much displays all the traits normally associated with one (minus the abusive tendencies) but Iori is tsun-ness does not comes off as bitchy in the slightest. And for someone of her stature, she is nowhere as haughty as you might expect - her best friend being none other than Yayoi, after all.

In order to prepare for this episode, I had increased my nutbladder's tensile strength by using incrementing intervals of exercise by viewing short hnnngh-inducing scenes where most viewers would have had seizure on the spot.

I lasted about 5 seconds.

Bonus:

FUCKING NONOWAS のヮの

Bonus

Iori saying hentai in three different languages